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Polychromatic app for managing Razer devices v0.8.3 out now

By Liam Dawe, Nov 20, 2023

Need help managing various Razer devices on Linux? Polychromatic v0.8.3 is out now with improved hardware support powered by OpenRazer.

OpenRazer 3.7 brings even more Razer device support to Linux

By Liam Dawe, Nov 2, 2023

OpenRazer 3.7.0 is out now bringing with it plenty of code clean-up and lots of new device support to Linux for Razer hardware fans this is an essential.

NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues

By Liam Dawe, Oct 31, 2023

NVIDIA today launched four new stable Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.

NVIDIA Beta driver 545.23.06 released for Linux, plenty of new features

By Liam Dawe, Oct 17, 2023

After being a little quiet for a while, NVIDIA released Beta driver 545.23.06 which includes a bunch of new features and a few bug fixes too.

Mesa 23.2.1 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe, Oct 1, 2023

After a longer period of waiting than usual, the Mesa 23.2.1 driver release is out now as the first in the Mesa 23.2 series.

Mesa 23.2 aims for release this week, with a point release next week

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25, 2023

It's been quite a while overdue but Mesa 23.2 is getting set to finally released, with a fourth Release Candidate now available for testing.

Mesa getting Vulkan performance upgrades for submission merging

By Liam Dawe, Sep 24, 2023

Developer Mike Blumenkrantz, who is one of many under contract by Valve, has released another blog post highlighting another fun optimization from their ongoing Mesa driver work.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta 535.43.09 and stable 535.104.05 drivers out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 4, 2023

NVIDIA recently released two fresh driver upgrades for Linux, although one of them we have no idea what they actually changed. Here's what's up.

AMD RADV Ray Tracing to potentially get much faster on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Aug 14, 2023

With some work currently pending to be pulled into Mesa, the open source AMD RADV driver could be about to get much faster with Ray Tracing which is exciting to see.

NVIDIA driver 535.98 now available for Linux

By Liam Dawe, Aug 8, 2023

NVIDIA GPU owners may want to go and grab some updates as driver 535.98 is out now. Here's a look over what's changed.

NVK the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA merged into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, Aug 7, 2023

Well, it happened! The open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs named NVK has been officially merged into Mesa.

Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver 'NVK' gears up for merging into Mesa

By Liam Dawe, Jul 27, 2023

This is exciting as heck! Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand and various contributors have been powering through developing NVK, the open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.34 out now

By Liam Dawe, Jul 25, 2023

NVIDIA have released another update to their Vulkan Beta driver series with 525.47.34 out now. So here's what's new and fixed.

NVIDIA driver 535.86.05 out now

By Liam Dawe, Jul 18, 2023

NVIDIA has released their latest Linux graphics driver update with version 535.86.05. So here's what's new and improved for you.

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta driver 525.47.31 released

By Liam Dawe, Jul 12, 2023

NVIDIA has released a fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver for developers with version 525.47.31 now available for testing.

Imagination GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 thanks to Zink

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2023

Here's a fun bit of driver and hardware news as Imagination announced their GPUs now support OpenGL 4.6 up from OpenGL 3.3 and it's thanks to the open source Zink driver.

Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2023

Valve clearly still have plenty of big ambitions for Linux gaming and Steam Deck, and as it turns out recently they pulled in yet another developer to work on open source graphics drivers.

The open source NVIDIA NVK driver is coming along well

By Liam Dawe, Jun 27, 2023

A project I have a very keen eye on is NVK, the open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver developed by the community (not NVIDIA), and it seems like progress on it is going rather well.